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we are scommitted to mane taining the most open and transparent investment environment. our process for reviewing national security cases of foreign investment in the united states focuses solely on national security considerations and reviews are pleated within a -- completed within a period of one to three months. so as we press forward, we know where we need to focus our efforts. the prioritiest just outlined are clear and doable. they amount to real solutions that will make a real difference for our economy now and in the future. and i'd like to close by thanking the commerce department for hosting this summit, as well as everyone in this room for coming today. america has always been known as the land of opportunity. a place where you can make it if you try. and have no doubt, opportunity in the united states is very much alive and well. it's alive for our workers, it's alive for our businesses, and it's alive for all of you who invest here. thank you very much. [applause] at the commerce investment summit, ceos talk about the investment climate and the policies to
we are scommitted to mane taining the most open and transparent investment environment. our process for reviewing national security cases of foreign investment in the united states focuses solely on national security considerations and reviews are pleated within a -- completed within a period of one to three months. so as we press forward, we know where we need to focus our efforts. the prioritiest just outlined are clear and doable. they amount to real solutions that will make a real...
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you say in your testimony the conflict in syria fostered an environment that fuels the growth of extremism and al qaeda-linked groups exploiting the situation for their benefit. we need to weigh in on behalf of those who promote freedom and tolerance. i take it you say that in the absence of doing that, by not empowering these folks, you are actually de facto empowering the people who do not promote freedom and tolerance. why didn't we do it sooner? in foreign policy, doing the right thing is not the only thing. you have to do the right thing at the right time. why did it take so long to reach this conclusion? now we find ourselves in a situation this thing you talk about doing, weighing in on behalf of those who promote freedom and liberty and tolerance may be impossible. >> senator, syrian opposition itself from the beginning was very atomized. that's how it survived. it didn't have clear leaders. it was a bunch of different neighborhoods. there was no national leadership. it's very hard to build up something that itself is still very incoherent. it took a long time for the opposition co
you say in your testimony the conflict in syria fostered an environment that fuels the growth of extremism and al qaeda-linked groups exploiting the situation for their benefit. we need to weigh in on behalf of those who promote freedom and tolerance. i take it you say that in the absence of doing that, by not empowering these folks, you are actually de facto empowering the people who do not promote freedom and tolerance. why didn't we do it sooner? in foreign policy, doing the right thing is...
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we need to where we environment, lessen the number of people who need clearance, we do a better job of clearing, and we need to create the expectation you are going to be randomly check to see if you deserve that clearance. difficult. are it and holding contractors accountable does not seem to be happening. how do we solve this? are, butout where we how do we solve it? have all these areas, three pages of instruction, five pages of names, 17 pages of employment, 29 pages on relationship, to pages on , a pages on financial records, five pages on association, and re-signature pages. i know you are reforming, but the point is we want to go for the gold. not all of this is checked from a quality assurance check. number three would be can we create a process that gets to the gold and not rely on the form as much as the data that is already out there that the government already holds? 84% of thezed that arele in this country ?ulnerable to top-secret data that puts us at risk. whoever wants to answer my broad commentary or educate me in a different direction, i would love to have it. >> an ar
we need to where we environment, lessen the number of people who need clearance, we do a better job of clearing, and we need to create the expectation you are going to be randomly check to see if you deserve that clearance. difficult. are it and holding contractors accountable does not seem to be happening. how do we solve this? are, butout where we how do we solve it? have all these areas, three pages of instruction, five pages of names, 17 pages of employment, 29 pages on relationship, to...
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we have worked hard to set up a great working environment in tennessee. there are certain things that are beyond our control. >> so i understand everyone on this panel is an enthusiast to disagreements, but we want to be clearheaded about some of the competitive costs. in the construction-mining business, what you see as the competitiveness that would come from -- imports would be less expensive? what are the challenges you will face of some of these deals come to be? >> well, that is a great reestion, and one we a battling on many fronts, and it comes back to the competitiveness of the united states. you get into things like education system, our taxing system, and all of the things that make u.s. companies competitive vis-À-vis our competitors around the world. that is another brought sucbjec t. to have a level playing field between ex-im bank and tariffs and the ability to penetrate markets that are open is kind of the foundation of all of this. past that, it is up to u.s. companies to be competitive and up to the american government, certainly, to he
we have worked hard to set up a great working environment in tennessee. there are certain things that are beyond our control. >> so i understand everyone on this panel is an enthusiast to disagreements, but we want to be clearheaded about some of the competitive costs. in the construction-mining business, what you see as the competitiveness that would come from -- imports would be less expensive? what are the challenges you will face of some of these deals come to be? >> well, that...
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iraq was able to integrate its iraq environment. under the previous regime and following the follow, we do not have one single [indiscernible] iraq was isolated regionally and internationally. 17 countries have embassies in iraq. we have good relations with them with exception of a few. we are working on these. we found our role again. we adopted the policy of non- interference in other countries affairs. we are looking for common interest. we do not want to use force against others. we are looking for cooperation between us and other countries. this is the best thing we can achieve. one thing we are still suffering from is lack of infrastructure and schools and housing for the poor. despite the fact that we progressed a lot. also one thing to mention in iraq, we were able to build security forces, army, police, and so on, with weapons that can defend the iraqi sovereignty. talk about a state that wants to protect itself and to open up and engage other countries. an army for our defense. defending iraq and its sovereignty and not ta
iraq was able to integrate its iraq environment. under the previous regime and following the follow, we do not have one single [indiscernible] iraq was isolated regionally and internationally. 17 countries have embassies in iraq. we have good relations with them with exception of a few. we are working on these. we found our role again. we adopted the policy of non- interference in other countries affairs. we are looking for common interest. we do not want to use force against others. we are...
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we've worked hard to set up a great working environment in tennessee and we think we have it. there are certain things that are beyond our control at this point. >> sso i understand it will understand this and it is used to these agreements but i think we want to be clearheaded about some of the competitive cost. in the construction money this is what d.c. as the competitive threat that would come from others who could -- imports would be less expensive. what are the competitive challenges you will face and how confident are you that caterpillar can fight them a? >> well, that's a great question and one we are battling on many other fronts. it comes back to really the competitiveness of the united states. you get into things like the education system, our taxing system and all the things that make u.s. companies competitive, vis-À-vis our competitors around the world and that's another broad subject we could probably spend days on as well. but to have a level playing field between ex-im bank and tariffs and the ability to penetrate markets that are open is kind of the foundat
we've worked hard to set up a great working environment in tennessee and we think we have it. there are certain things that are beyond our control at this point. >> sso i understand it will understand this and it is used to these agreements but i think we want to be clearheaded about some of the competitive cost. in the construction money this is what d.c. as the competitive threat that would come from others who could -- imports would be less expensive. what are the competitive...
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the environment has rights. and he's telling me we have an old saying, business is business cap go -- is business? >> we have an old saying, business is business, except with business. [laughter] [applause] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2013] him him >> a him look now at the live events we will cover this afternoon. a session of the privacy and civil liberties data board. they will deal with the nsa surveillance programs. we showed the morning sessions earlier. you can watch them on c-span video library. we will be live with the afternoon session at 1:00 eastern time. the senate is in at 2:00 eastern live on c-span to continuing debate on work based discrimination bill. also considering to judicial nominations today. live this afternoon, the u.s. news on hospitals and health care. we will hear from former senate republican leader in surgeon will frisk as well as don usha leyla and the head of the cleveland clinic and tax six message --
the environment has rights. and he's telling me we have an old saying, business is business cap go -- is business? >> we have an old saying, business is business, except with business. [laughter] [applause] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2013] him him >> a him look now at the live events we will cover this afternoon. a session of the privacy and civil liberties data board. they will deal with the nsa...
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we have done all the things we can do to help this to be a great and productive work environment but there are certain things out of our control the dramatically impact jobs in tennessee when i hear all the manufacturers tell us we love being in tennessee and we love the work environment, but if we had this agreement in place, we could produce more jobs. well it's a little frustrating to me as a governor because it is out of my country but it's also critical for me to get involved to land that felice whether it is in washington or anywhere else. but like i said, we've worked hard to set up a work environment in tennessee and we think we have it but there are certain things that are beyond our control at this point. >> im stand everyone on the panel is an enthusiast to this agreement but we want to be clearheaded about some of the competitive costs. if the construction mining business, what do you see as the competitive threat that would come from others that -- imports would be less expensive. what are the competitive to when she would face from the deals coming to be and how had con
we have done all the things we can do to help this to be a great and productive work environment but there are certain things out of our control the dramatically impact jobs in tennessee when i hear all the manufacturers tell us we love being in tennessee and we love the work environment, but if we had this agreement in place, we could produce more jobs. well it's a little frustrating to me as a governor because it is out of my country but it's also critical for me to get involved to land that...
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that environment ought to produce the -- dr. produce the largest amount of innovation. ought to produce the largest amount of innovation. that does not always work. i learned most new businesses do not succeed. not work.deas do for example, in the 1980's, when i was governor, we were worried inut the number of students colleges and universities who were not prepared for that. we thought that was wrong. we set the way to deal with that was to say you can come to the college, but you will not get credit. -- you will not get credit for the course if you were not prepared for college. it turns out, 20 years later, that probably isn't the right thing to do. what we will hear from mr. hall -- our state is abandoning that approach and admitting more people and working harder to move them through the system faster. that seems to be working better. what seems to be a good innovation at one point, might not be later. it is a caution to us that we should be careful about coming idea --even a very good a good sounding idea here, and that it will work or impose it on all 6000 instit
that environment ought to produce the -- dr. produce the largest amount of innovation. ought to produce the largest amount of innovation. that does not always work. i learned most new businesses do not succeed. not work.deas do for example, in the 1980's, when i was governor, we were worried inut the number of students colleges and universities who were not prepared for that. we thought that was wrong. we set the way to deal with that was to say you can come to the college, but you will not get...
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theiggest concern is that unintentional environment is a bit this ingenuous. >> how would you correct that? >> there are a couple of possibilities. they all get to the same place. one is, not to allow the government to file for a directive if they have reason to believe that a certain percentage of the intercepted mutations will actually involve u.s. persons. one is to not just require those requirement, but what those requirements are. the threshold issue is that it is just too likely that communications are being accidentally picked up, or it incidentally picked up even when the government cannot go back -- go after them. they need to scale that back. professor, did i hear you correctly to say that you do not think section 702 bears the weight that has been put upon it in terms of authorizing the bulk collection program? did i catch that? referring to section 215. >> yes, section 215. that is your view? on the understanding of the current statute, i can say that when the news was disclosed that the bulk collection program had been authorized under section 215, i scratched my head on
theiggest concern is that unintentional environment is a bit this ingenuous. >> how would you correct that? >> there are a couple of possibilities. they all get to the same place. one is, not to allow the government to file for a directive if they have reason to believe that a certain percentage of the intercepted mutations will actually involve u.s. persons. one is to not just require those requirement, but what those requirements are. the threshold issue is that it is just too...
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my focus has been on the complexity of the regulatory environment, and the need for broad access to credit for qualified borrowers, and a vibrant and competitive marketplace. it has also been my desire to share my values showing industry i care deeply about who in particular i hope will continue to inspire. over the past year i've talked a great deal about leadership, and i've expressed my strong belief that we as industry professionals are uniquely positioned to lead change. and that nowhere is our leadership more important than how we choose to run our own companies. here is our opportunity to leave a legacy, i raising the professional standards of our industry, and instilling a genuine duty of care to the consumer, and demonstrating that we belong as an integral part of the stable housing marketplace. many of you have also heard me talk about the concepts of owning a home. where, together, we accept responsibility for the success of the anti-real estate finance community, while still being accountable for our own individual peace. i believe there is no better opportunity to own the home
my focus has been on the complexity of the regulatory environment, and the need for broad access to credit for qualified borrowers, and a vibrant and competitive marketplace. it has also been my desire to share my values showing industry i care deeply about who in particular i hope will continue to inspire. over the past year i've talked a great deal about leadership, and i've expressed my strong belief that we as industry professionals are uniquely positioned to lead change. and that nowhere...
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we will wrap up the afternoon with a panel on the united states energy environment come into discussion on exhibition oe exhibition floor on how to take the edge of service providers. for right now let's get to this morning's keynote speaker. i am honored to introduce secretary of state john kerry. he is a proud son of a decorated former foreign service officer. as a young man, he served two tours of duty in the amount, receiving a bronze star -- in vietnam, a bronze star, a silver star and three purple hearts. he served as a top prosecutor of the county level in massachusetts and then went on to be elected lieutenant governor, and two years later he was elected to the united states senate where he served 28 years. the last four of those years he served as the chairman of the senate foreign relations committee, developing relations around the world with world leaders. in fact, -- every foreign policy issue for the united states over the past three decades. this year he became the first sitting chairman of that committee in over a century to become secretary of state. and just two weeks
we will wrap up the afternoon with a panel on the united states energy environment come into discussion on exhibition oe exhibition floor on how to take the edge of service providers. for right now let's get to this morning's keynote speaker. i am honored to introduce secretary of state john kerry. he is a proud son of a decorated former foreign service officer. as a young man, he served two tours of duty in the amount, receiving a bronze star -- in vietnam, a bronze star, a silver star and...
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they are cleaning vast areas of land and destroying the environment. they are selling cattle on the mexican side for profit. and of course, they are competing with a legal companies. chinese gangs are also involved in illegal logging. and the wood is sent to asia. illegal logging is going on in columbia and brazil and also connected with organized crime. moving on to illegal mining. organized crime in colombia is -- operations in the country. including the unlicensed extraction of gold and other metal. gold is used to launder money through other illegal activities like drug trafficking. those are just a trip through some of the diversification of the -- [inaudible] we also have found link between organized crime and organized crime from other regions. i'm just going mention a few. [inaudible] has been present in mexico, colombia, and seems to also be present in argentina. doing what? human trafficking. russian -- also human trafficking with chemicals for meth. the nigeria criminal gang control 30% of cocaine. it's a lot to be concerned about. i think t
they are cleaning vast areas of land and destroying the environment. they are selling cattle on the mexican side for profit. and of course, they are competing with a legal companies. chinese gangs are also involved in illegal logging. and the wood is sent to asia. illegal logging is going on in columbia and brazil and also connected with organized crime. moving on to illegal mining. organized crime in colombia is -- operations in the country. including the unlicensed extraction of gold and...
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energy environment. to guard the technology and services sector and much more. i honestly, frankly, have no idea how you will choose which session to attend because they are all going to be informative and stimulating. in addition, of course, you are going to hear from a number of my colleagues throughout the administration over the next two days. i hope everyone here is as excited as i am to hear today from the leader who had the foresight to launch select u.s.a. two years ago, president barack obama. looking forward from the perspective of my team at the commerce department, we want to do everything possible to serve you, not just in the next two days, but in the weeks, months, and years ahead. for example, and just a few weeks the american chamber of commerce will host the 2-day event november 19th to 21st in barcelona and madrid. next april we will be in hanover in germany where largest manufacturing showing the world. in a we will be at the offshore technology conference in a houston. next september we will be in frankfurt for auto mechanic beckham i global
energy environment. to guard the technology and services sector and much more. i honestly, frankly, have no idea how you will choose which session to attend because they are all going to be informative and stimulating. in addition, of course, you are going to hear from a number of my colleagues throughout the administration over the next two days. i hope everyone here is as excited as i am to hear today from the leader who had the foresight to launch select u.s.a. two years ago, president...
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i provide ministry in a political environment. so my prayers will reflect material related to government because that's what politics, that is what the political process is all about but it does not, it does not bring up my prayers. i deliberately avoid partisan issues of the i have never talked about immigration reform, i have never talked about same-sex marriage or pro-choice or pro-life or anything like that in the decade-plus that i have been praying and i would not be addressing partisan issues. so i pray as we said earlier out of the overflow of my devotional life and pass tomorrow outreach, not to -- pastoral outreach, not to bring issues to the floor in my intercession. >> what is your favorite part about being chaplain? >> my favorite part about being the 62nd chaplain of the united states senate that it provides me with a front row seat to human history. there's more written about the legislative branch of government in our constitution than any other branch and i have the privilege of having a front row seat to the legi
i provide ministry in a political environment. so my prayers will reflect material related to government because that's what politics, that is what the political process is all about but it does not, it does not bring up my prayers. i deliberately avoid partisan issues of the i have never talked about immigration reform, i have never talked about same-sex marriage or pro-choice or pro-life or anything like that in the decade-plus that i have been praying and i would not be addressing partisan...